1. IEEE WORKSHOP ON NETWORK AUTOMATION
February 25, 2019, Piscataway, NJ
Agenda
8:00 – 8:45 AM Registration, Coffee
8:45 - 9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks - Workshop Chair,
ComSoc Leadership
9:00 – 9:20 AM Trends and Issues in Softwarization of
Networks: What’s In What’s Out ?
Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis
9:20 – 9:40 AM Network Automation – Opportunities &
Challenges
Hansraj Nahata, Verizon
9:40 – 10:00 AM Network Service/Slice Orchestration
Himanshu Shukla, Ericsson
10:00 – 10:20 AM Implementation Approach for Network
Automation Projects
Manish Jain, Cisco
10:20 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:50 AM Network Slicing: Enabling Statistical
Multiplexing of Multi-tenant Spatial Loads
Gustavo de Veciana, University of Texas, Austin
10:50 – 11:10 AM Network Automation in a Service Provider
Environment
Sunil Maloo, AT&T
11:10 – 11:30 AM Automation for Deploying and Managing
Large Scale Network!
Gulrukh Ahanger, Comcast
11:30 – 11:50 AM Network Virtualization, 5G Slice
Management, Standards and Open Source
Raquel Morera, Verizon
11:50 - 12:10 PM Creating the Self-provisioning, Self-
optimizing and Self-healing Network
Richard Dunsmore, Fujitsu Network Communications
12:10 - 12:30 PM Policy Driven Closed Loop Automation
Balaji Subramaniam, Ciena
12:30 - 1:10 PM Lunch
1:10 - 1:30 PM End-to-end Network and Service Automation
Marina Thottan, Nokia Bell Labs
1:30 – 1:50 PM Programming Hybrid Networks
Nate Foster, Cornell University
1:50 – 2:10 PM A Flexible RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) and
its Applications in 5G
Rittwik Jana, AT&T
2:10 – 2:30 PM Reconfigurable Network for Next Generation
Seong-Hwan Kim, Xilinx
2:30 – 2:50 PM Intent Based Networking - the technology
behind the hype
Jeff Tantsura, Apstra
2:50 - 3:10 PM Elastic Metro Ethernet and Elastic Cloud
Services
Mehmet Toy, Verizon
3:10 - 3:20 PM Coffee Break
3:20 – 3:40 PM VNFs: Evolution Testing and Certification
Steven A Wright, ONAP
3:40 – 4:00 PM Stuart Mackie, Juniper Networks
4:00 – 4:20 PM In search for a “LIDAR for Self-Driving
Networking”
Walter Willinger, NIKSUN
4:20 – 4:40 PM Extending OpenDaylight Using Microservices
Architecture
Shaleen Saxena, Lumina Networks
4:40 – 6:00 PM Panel: Network Automation -- Opportunities
and Challenges
Anwar Walid, Nokia Bell Labs, Panel Moderator
Brian Freeman, AT&T
Mehmet Toy, Verizon
Balaji Subramaniam, Ciena
Stuart Mackie, Juniper Networks
Shaleen Saxena, Lumina Networks
Nate Foster, Cornell University
6:00 – 6:05 PM Closing
